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5 unusual facts about Arthur Plunkett


Arthur Plunkett

Plunkett never actually visited the bridge before he died in London of throat cancer on 13 August 1937.

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Arthur Lancelot Bonner (Lance) Plunkett was a civil engineer involved in the design of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Arthur Plunkett, 8th Earl of Fingall

They had a son, Arthur Plunkett, 9th Earl of Fingall, and a daughter, Harriet (died 1871), who married John Jones of Llanarth, Monmouthshire.

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He married in 1785 Frances Donelan of Ballydonellan, County Galway who died in 1835.

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He became Earl of Fingall in 1793 after the death of Arthur James Plunkett, 7th Earl of Fingall and was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 20 October 1821, on the occasion of the Royal Visit to Ireland of King George IV.



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